"deeply exploring the fallout of a momentary social flub" is a rare-ish premise for a whole movie so i get the comparison

this post made me throw all my jann arden albums (n=0) into a big ditch

A place of greater safety, Hilary Mantel :)

this morning anya taylor-joy was hit with a question that has never been asked before in the history of the universe

Basement apt in vanier w its own side entrance

klapaucius

I no longer understand the word zine, i once did but now it is a sound to me like plop or vroom

"I asked AI if the unexamined life was worth living, and it told me yes!"

📢 AWARD NEWS

Congrats to Ben Ladouceur & Shani Mootoo! I Remember Lights is a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, and Starry Starry Night is a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award for Multicultural Fiction! 🎉

Learn more:
www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

the difference between dexter of lab and dexter of dexter is that dexter of lab has read bell hooks

A screenshot of a text box from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. Kathryn Janeway: Follow them! We'll get Tuvok's lungs back.

This is what gaming is all about

I followed the game purely via my work chat and from what i understand it did not work out for canada

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the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! March 24-30, 2026: readings and performances in English and French (and Polish!) by Marie-Célie Agnant, Olivia Tapiero, Sanita Fejzic, Melis...

the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

testing something about bluesky vids (here's a cute video of my dog realizing there's a man in the skylight)

“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur - EVENT Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for ...

"The important thing is to tell the truth—and often 'what happened' is only the beginning of that."
@helloiamben.bsky.social, author of I Remember Lights, chats with Jasper Fleming for @eventmags.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4hxftct7

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2026 is for the homosexuals

Really feels like in the last year AI boosters have given up the pretense that LLMs will enable any kind of new much less radical literature and the pitch now is solely "it lets you cut corners and spend less time on writing, and you have to use it because everyone else will be cutting corners."

A poem called “The Mind Recalls Her Skinny Lovers” by Peter Harley.

Astonishing study in metaphor.

(Peter Harley, in 31 Newfoundland Poets, Breakwater Books, 1979)

said what i said

Drawing in white on black background using stylized cartoonish figures to depict the Nativity, with angels and a star above, the three kings at left, baby and two adults in a small structure, and crawling babies below

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

5 perfect movies

Secrets and Lies
Party Girl
Elle
The Muppet Movie
Great Freedom

Our Top Fiction of 2025 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf The fiction that rocked the year that was. 

Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo and I Remember Lights by @helloiamben.bsky.social are selected as top fiction books of 2025 by @49thshelf.bsky.social! ✨
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12...

very cool! THE BEST! the absolute best,